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Garfield Memorial Medal [168174]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Medals Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Garfield Memorial Medal  [168174]
SOLD
60.00USD+ (15.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2023 Jul 30 @ 11:56UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Obv.: Garfield Memorial / Cleveland; Rev.: Portrait of a statue / S. D. Childs & Co. Chicago. Br., rd., 38 mm. Situated on a commanding hill in Lake View Cemetery, the monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1890. The monument features a circular tower 50 feet in diameter and 180 feet high, built of native Ohio sandstone on a broad stone terrace. Around the exterior are five panels in bas-relief depicting Garfield's life and death. These panels include more than 100 figures, all of them life-size. Inside the monument is Memorial Hall, a luminous space that features a sculpture of Garfield, red granite columns, a golden mosaic dome, and stained glass windows. In the crypt directly below the Memorial Hall are the bronze caskets of Garfield and his wife, Lucretia Garfield. Cleveland Ohio